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Current Urban Studies (CUS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement in the study of urban studies. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas…
Emad Mohammed Qurnfulah, Abdulmuakhir Dalhat Isah
Form-based codes (FBCs) have recently been introduced as a viable alternative to the traditional zoning regulations. They are land regulations where building form rather than solely land use is the guiding principle of the code. This is in contrast to the tra…
Tülay Öcal
In Turkey, urban planning works are staying on the agenda with the decisions made at the central level. Because these urban works reached their purpose in some of our cities, whereas these urban works became a big problem of our society. Urban transformation…
Ignacio Carreno, Wenjun Ma
The problems affecting major cities are expected to increase under the pressure exerted by climate change, population growth and the incremental nature of urban consumption. Therefore, it becomes necessary to increase urban sustainability and resilience in a…
Mehrnaz Doustmohammadi, Michael Anderson, Ehsan Doustmohammadi
This paper uses data from a trucking origin/destination study conducted with global positioning system (GPS) technology to develop a truck trip generation model for medium sized urban communities—in this study taken to be communities between 200,000 and 1,000…
Wilfred Gordian Kazaura
Land use patterns essentially determine activity centre locations and opportunities for trip generation and attraction. Land uses signify the magnitude of travel demand and availability of transport patterns influence s the future land uses. A number of liter…
Chen Hong, Yulu Ya, Tinghua Hu, Xiaoqing Hu, Xianmin Mai
Small towns are a transitional existence between traditional villages and modern cities, and an important buffer for reconciling urban-rural binary contradictions. At present, China has entered a period of rapid urbanization. The state has introduced a series…
Marco Burra, Wilfred G. Kazaura, Mswani Laurent
This paper aimed at examining the spatial allocation of public spaces and their standards in newly planned neighbourhoods as implemented by the private planning firms, and their effect to local communities or users. The paper specifically examines and analyse…
Regina John, Fredrick Bwire Magina, Emmanuel Fares Kemwita
The paper documents the resettlement process undertaken following the 2011 heavy rains in Dar es Salaam City , which adversely affected many people who lived in flood prone areas particularly in and along Msimbazi river valley. Within the resettlement process…
Bons N. Obiadi, A. M. Ezezue, Peter Umo Uduak
Abuja, Nigeria as a befitting Federal Capital Territory, centrally located, without the defects of Lagos was spawned in 1975. The site was chosen for its location at the center of the nation, its small population and for political reasons. In the process, a M…
Florian C. Guenther
By 2050, it is projected that 68 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. At the same time, mankind is facing the tasks to tackle climate change and to produce enough food for a growing world population. Those trends claim to rethink how cities…
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Current Urban Studies (CUS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement in the study of urban studies. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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